I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Norman Spinrad

Early in his career Hoskins had realized that no field of science is remote from the affairs of men, that there is a sociological implication inherent even in the simple set of screwing a nut on a bolt.

Mark Clifton

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

James Thomson

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

Emma Forrest

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

Kendrick Meek

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Charles Frazier

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Rupert Murdoch

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

William Shakespeare

We live in the world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

Everything changes but change.

Israel Zangwill